Faculty and Staff Directory

Associate Professor, 

Intersection of systems biology, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to understand how biological cells work and react to drugs and environmental signals

Assistant Professor, 

Our long-term research goal is to develop and apply innovative spatial, single cell and optical technologies that will transform our understanding of cellular communication in health and disease and use this insight to develop new treatments.

Assistant Professor, 

Tissue engineering, microfluidics, cancer

Administrative Access Coordinator, 

Associate Professor, 

Entrepreneurship education microenvironments and their impact on the engagement of diverse populations, the influence of I-Corps on university ecosystems, and transforming BME education through instructional design

Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Master's Education and Global Operation, 

Assistant Professor, 

Nanopore technology, single-cell techniques, computational biology

Scientific Access Writer, 

Research Scientist, 

Senior Lab Technician, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Engineered living materials, synthetic biology, biochemistry, protein self-assembly

Professor and Chair, 

Design and use of biomaterials for wound healing; antimicrobial/antibiofilm strategies; soft-tissue replacement; polymer condensates; and sustained delivery of therapeutics

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security, data privacy and encryption; hardware reliability and recovery; simulation; and workload characterization

Affiliated Faculty, 

computational modeling of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms from cellular to organ scales including systems biology approaches

Assistant Professor, 

Mechanobiology, tissue engineering, cardiovascular diseases, stem cells, organoids, 3D printing

Affiliated Faculty, 

Single cell functional multi-omic analysis, Phenotypic drug profiling in droplet microfluidics for better targeting of drug-resistant tumors, Live single cell functional phenotyping and cell-cell communication in droplet nano-liter reactors

Associate Professor, 

Bioelectric medicine, development of novel interventions and tissue engineered platforms for nerve regeneration and repair, body-on-a-chip for enteric-gut interactions

Administrative & Project Assistant, 

Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus

Associate Professor, 

Systems and synthetic biology of the Brain-Immune-Gut super-system; Interactions among hosts and microbes; Deep learning approaches to interpreting biological data and designing biomedical solutions

University Distinguished Professor, 

Physical modeling of cancer progression, metastasis and interaction with the immune system. Most recent interests include the role of metabolic plasticity in these processes and the co-evolution of the tumor and the adaptive immune system. Other areas include spatial organization of the actin cytoskeleton, the mechanics of collective cell motility, and the analysis of genetic circuits involved in cell fate decisions.

Affiliated Faculty, 

Antimicrobial drug tolerance, antibiotic discovery, microbiome therapeutics

Affiliated Faculty, 

Quantitative Neuroscience, Cell Mechanics, Cytoskeleton in Neurons, Biotransport, Advanced Imaging Method, Physics of Living Matter

Assistant Professor, 

Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development

Administrative Access Coordinator, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor, 

Biological flows, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, blood flow simulation, cerebrospinal fluid simulation, Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, medical image processing, magnetic resonance imaging

Assistant Professor, 

Computational systems biology, an integration of mathematical modeling and bioinformatics for studying gene regulatory networks, single cell genomics, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, coarse-graining, reverse engineering, machine learning, stochasticity and heterogeneity in gene expression

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

I study how gene expression is spatio-temporally orchestrated during cell growth, division and differentiation; by global mechanisms based on feedback between metabolism and chromatin.

Professor, 

Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease

Senior Research Scientist, 

Engineered Living Materials, Synthetic Biology, Materials Engineering, Biomanufacturing, Nanotechnology, Protein Engineering, Additive Manufacturing, Sustainability and Nature-Inspired Engineering.

Lab Operations & Safety Manager, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Lab Coordinator, 

Vice Provost for Graduate Education, 

Combinatorial optimization, function approximation for large-scale machine learning, platforms for large-scale social experimentation, assistive technology

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Assistant Professor, 

Pulmonary surfactant (PS), Surfactant immunoproteins, Innate immune response, Computational methods, Computational modeling, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo Simulations, Interfacial Phenomena, Biological interfaces, Therapeutics, Molecular Biophysics, Computational chemistry, Bioengineering, STEM Accessibility